RP, Vietnam now on equal footing in arnis
December 5, 2005 | 12:00am
Team Philippines and Vietnam finished with identical three gold medals and three silvers to tie for the overall championship in arnis in the 23rd Southeast Asian Games at the Emilio Aguinaldo College Gym yesterday.
Anna Joy Fernandez accounted for the Philippines last gold in the sport when she topped the womens full contact event by besting Vietnams Le Ti Thanh Huyen (silver) and Timor Lestes Elisabeth Yanti and Almeda Dois Reis (bronze).
Fernandez dropped the first round against Huyen but changed tactics to win the last two rounds and the match.
Reneto Tunacao, on the other hand, missed giving RP the overall crown when he bowed to Vietnams Nguyen Thanh Quyen and settled for silver in the final fight in the mens side.
The arnis squad fell one short of its projected four gold medal haul as it fell prey to a vastly-improved Vietnamese team.
Still, head coach Rufino Montalbo said he was satisfied with his players performance.
"We were just short by one gold but they did their best and thats good enough for me," Montalbo said.
Tunacao, however, was grossly disappointed with the outcome of his match. The three-time national arnis champion felt that the Vietnamese judge in the contest favored his countryman during the fight.
"My opponent was not the Vietnamese player, it was the Vietnamese judge," Tunacao said. "My performance should speak for itself." Don Gil Carreon
Anna Joy Fernandez accounted for the Philippines last gold in the sport when she topped the womens full contact event by besting Vietnams Le Ti Thanh Huyen (silver) and Timor Lestes Elisabeth Yanti and Almeda Dois Reis (bronze).
Fernandez dropped the first round against Huyen but changed tactics to win the last two rounds and the match.
Reneto Tunacao, on the other hand, missed giving RP the overall crown when he bowed to Vietnams Nguyen Thanh Quyen and settled for silver in the final fight in the mens side.
The arnis squad fell one short of its projected four gold medal haul as it fell prey to a vastly-improved Vietnamese team.
Still, head coach Rufino Montalbo said he was satisfied with his players performance.
"We were just short by one gold but they did their best and thats good enough for me," Montalbo said.
Tunacao, however, was grossly disappointed with the outcome of his match. The three-time national arnis champion felt that the Vietnamese judge in the contest favored his countryman during the fight.
"My opponent was not the Vietnamese player, it was the Vietnamese judge," Tunacao said. "My performance should speak for itself." Don Gil Carreon
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